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What Danielle Dimartino Booth is saying
CEO & Chief Strategist, QI Research
9 dated public stances tracked since 2025-03-25, most recently 2026-08-29. Each line carries the date and the venue it came from; quotation marks mean verbatim. Methodology.
The stances below are c8alpha's editorial distillation of Danielle Dimartino Booth's public commentary — television, podcasts, and interviews — compiled by automated transcript analysis and dated to the episode they came from. They may lag the speaker's current view and may contain extraction errors. Text in quotation marks is verbatim from the episode; everything else is our paraphrase. Danielle Dimartino Booth is not affiliated with c8alpha and has not endorsed this page. Nothing here is investment advice.
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2026-08-29
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Most-argued themes
| Theme | Stances | Lean | Mix | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GOLD | 3 | 3 bullish | 2026-08-22 | |
| BANKS | 1 | 1 bearish | 2025-03-25 | |
| CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY EQUITIES | 1 | 1 bearish | 2025-03-25 | |
| CONSUMER STAPLES EQUITIES | 1 | 1 bearish | 2025-03-25 | |
| FED FUNDS RATE / US RATE POLICY | 1 | 1 neutral | 2026-08-29 | |
| USD | 1 | 1 neutral | 2026-08-28 |
Tracked stances
bullish / bearish is a view they argued; owns / short is a position they said they hold.
2026-08-29
FED FUNDS RATE / US RATE POLICY
neutral
Danielle DiMartino Booth · video
Worsh commands a unified bloc of permanent Fed Board governors who have not dissented, giving him cover to hold rates through year-end against market pricing of roughly 30% odds of a September hike
“I actually believe that we're going to see a hold not just in September, but for the rest of the year”
Danielle DiMartino Booth Appears on ‘Bloomberg Asia’ to Discuss U.S. Markets
2026-08-28
USD
neutral
Danielle DiMartino Booth · video
Absent a significant expansion of Bessant's Treasury buyback program beyond the current scale, the dollar lacks a catalyst for another big leg lower and will remain range-bound near the 99 level
“I would say that we're going to kind of hang in here and hover”
Danielle DiMartino Booth of QI Research via Fintech TV The Opening Bell
2026-08-22
GOLD
owns
Danielle DiMartino Booth · video
Treasury intervention to cap long-end yields signals deepening credit stress, which is a bullish catalyst for gold as a safe haven rather than a risk-asset rally
“the last time we spoke I said that I was tippy toeing back into gold. I certainly am happy that I did that”
Major Market Intervention: Why Did Treasury Just Double Bond Buybacks? DiMartino Booth & David Lin
2026-06-30
USTS
bullish
Danielle DiMartino Booth · video
Market expectations for a 2026 rate hike are wrong — imminent negative month-over-month CPI prints and no-hike Fed trajectory mean locking in 4.1% on a 2-year is asymmetrically attractive while waiting for speculative excess to unwind
“you can get 4.1% on a two-year. Just go lock that in. Lock and load”
Are The Rich Starting To Stumble? | Danielle DiMartino Booth
2026-06-30
GOLD
bullish
Danielle DiMartino Booth · video
Speculative tourists have been shaken out during the consolidation phase, clearing froth, while the Fed's growing balance sheet is functionally QE and a potential market correction would drive shelter-seeking flows back into the asset class
“I just said last week for the first time in a long time, I think it's time to step back in”
Are The Rich Starting To Stumble? | Danielle DiMartino Booth
2025-03-25
CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY EQUITIES
bearish
Danielle DiMartino Booth · video
Americans are cutting lifestyle spending—dining out, recreation, travel—amid a private-sector recession, driving a wave of bankruptcies already running at nearly double the pre-pandemic rate in consumer discretionary.
“weakness in consumer discretionary, weakness in the banks”
Danielle DiMartino Booth of QI Research
2025-03-25
BANKS
bearish
Danielle DiMartino Booth · video
Higher-for-longer rates are pressuring commercial real estate loan books held by mid-size and smaller banks—rising delinquencies, 6,000+ store closing announcements in 2025 straining retail CRE, and still-elevated unrealized losses on bond portfolios point to…
“delinquency rates are still continuing to rise... that's a source of serious weakness throughout the US banking system”
90d -0.7% · 180d -12.7% · 1y -11.9%
Danielle DiMartino Booth of QI Research
2025-03-25
CONSUMER STAPLES EQUITIES
bearish
Danielle DiMartino Booth · video
Consumer retrenchment is bleeding beyond discretionary into essentials—trading down on brands and packaged goods—creating an underappreciated headwind for staples companies as spending on both goods and services contracts simultaneously.
“when you have the head of Dollar Tree say households are pulling back on essentials, that's going to manifest in consumer staples”
Danielle DiMartino Booth of QI Research
2025-03-25
GOLD
bullish
Danielle DiMartino Booth · video
Geopolitical tensions, ongoing financial system dislocation, and central bank accumulation (especially China's reserve expansion toward developed-nation levels) put a structural floor under gold prices, with uncertainty across trade/geopolitics acting as a…
“gold is your ultimate hedge... the higher the uncertainty element, the higher the price of gold”
90d +11.7% · 180d +23.9% · 1y +49.5%
Danielle DiMartino Booth of QI Research
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